HERO SPACE LIZARD MARTELLO

🎨 Paint Your Herome Challenge is live!

Join our May painting contest: print and paint one of my models, share your finished work, and you could win a €40 voucher.

To participate, enter our Discord server and look for the contest section:

paint-your-herome-challenge

👉 Click on the image to join the contest!

Grab your brushes… the painting war has begun. 🔥

So many of you are messaging me asking where my old models have gone.

I’m trying to reply to everyone, but I’ll say it here too: unfortunately, several of my models are being removed from the platform.

So my advice is very simple:

if you like a model, download it NOW.

Don’t just add it to your collection, because in a few days it might be too late… and then come the tears, the regrets, and the classic “damn, I should have downloaded it when I had the chance.”

You’ve been warned. The rest is in the hands of the 3D printing gods. 😄

GARA'S LAB

I'm a dad to two beautiful girls and I enjoy letting them discover the multiverse through nerd objects that I 3D print.

This is one of the models that came out of my small 3D printing lab
I enjoy designing, testing, and sharing these figures with those who love printing, painting, and collecting miniatures.

I am a big Bambu Lab fan and all my prints are mainly made with P2S and A1 mini

Before publishing a model, I always do several test prints to check stability, supports, and overall output.

Click here to join my Discord group: every now and then we do evening live sessions to talk about 3D printing, projects, tests, and new ideas to develop together

AND COME TAKE A LOOK AT THE INSTAGRAM PROFILE TOO

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RECOMMENDED PRINT SCALE

I often make test prints on a reduced scale (around 10 cm) to check the model's behavior.

But there's an important point

If you print it larger, around 15 cm, in addition to gaining details, you also gain ease of printing

My advice:
enlarge it as much as you want, but add some extra supports where needed

Proof that the model prints correctly is in the actual photos in the post

Only a basic knowledge of slicing is needed

If you have any doubts, feel free to write to me: if I can help, I'm always happy to

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PRINT PARAMETERS USED FOR TESTS

Test scale: approximately 5 cm

PLA Basic white
Layer height: 0.16 extra fine
Supports: hybrid tree
Outer brim: 10 mm
Object spacing: 0 mm

If you want to give a small buff to this nerd project, you can do so with a contribution on PayPal here

Alternatively, if you want to help, you can boost the server and support the community

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SUPPORT REMOVAL

The supports are designed to be quite delicate

They can be removed without damaging the model, but calmly:
one at a time, slowly, using tweezers and a bit of patience

No need to go Rambo on the supports...
otherwise something breaks and you end up crying in front of the printer

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TECHNICAL NOTES (the truth, not poetry)

I prefer to print the figures in single colors and paint them after priming using acrylic markers or miniature painting techniques

The colored images on the cover are just examples of coloring generated with AI to show possible painting styles

The final result always depends on the personal taste of whoever paints the model, I apologize for some imperfections and slight differences between the real model and the AI model, I still need to perfect the method!!!!in all cases you have my photos, both with and without supports, as a reference for the printed model!!!

The design originates from an AI generation (Tripo), subsequently refined manually and tested in FDM printing to ensure actual printability

The actual print photos are the monochrome white or gray ones present in the gallery

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THE PART THAT DECIDES IF YOU PRINT OR SWEAR

Plate adhesion

I use CryoGrip Pro Frostbite and the adhesion is so strong that the prints seem to have taken out a mortgage on the plate: they never detach

I mainly use Bambu filaments and have no problems

If you use a different setup:

• focus first and foremost on plate adhesion
• use dry and quality filament
• keep the plate perfectly clean
• don't be afraid to use brim or extra supports

With these precautions, printing becomes much simpler and more reliable

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THE HEROME COLLECTION

If you like this model, you can find all the other figures in the collection here:

https://makerworld.com/en/@Gara/upload

Be careful though...

if you start printing them, you'll end up wanting them all

If you like the model, leave a like, it really helps the project grow